Following major companies as well as organisations, the non-profit grouping behind Tor Project – the largest online anonymity network that allows people to enshroud their existent identity online – has finally launched a "Bug Bounty Program."
The Tor Project announced on Th that it joined hands alongside HackerOne to start a populace põrnikas bounty plan to encourage hackers as well as security researchers to abide by as well as privately study vulnerabilities that could compromise the anonymity network.
HackerOne is a põrnikas bounty startup that operates põrnikas bounty programs for companies including Yahoo, Twitter, Slack, Dropbox, Uber, General Motors – as well as fifty-fifty the United States of America Department of Defense for Hack the Pentagon initiative.
Bug bounty programs are cash rewards gave past times companies or organisations to white lid hackers as well as researchers who hunt for serious security vulnerabilities inwards their website or products as well as thus responsibly bring out them.
The Tor Project announced its intention to launch a populace põrnikas bounty program inwards belatedly Dec 2015 during a utter past times the Tor Project at Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) held inwards Hamburg, Germany. However, it launched the invite-only bounty plan in conclusion year.
The highest payout for the flaws has been kept $4,000 — põrnikas hunters tin earn betwixt $2,000 as well as $4,000 for High severity vulnerabilities, betwixt $500 as well as $2,000 for Medium severity vulnerabilities, as well as a minimum of $100 for Low severity bugs.
Moreover, less severe issues volition live on rewarded alongside a t-shirt, stickers as well as a cite inwards Tor's hall of fame.
"Tor users to a greater extent than or less the globe, including human rights defenders, activists, lawyers, as well as researchers, rely on the security as well as security of our software to live on anonymous online," Tor browser developer Georg Koppen said inwards a spider web log post. "Help us protect them as well as proceed them security from surveillance, tracking, as well as attacks."The Tor Project is a non-profit arrangement behind the Tor anonymizing network that allows whatever online user to browse the Internet without the fright of beingness tracked.
The Project outset announced its innovation to launch the põrnikas bounty plan weeks subsequently it defendant the FBI of paying the researchers of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at to the lowest degree $1 Million to assist them Unmask Tor users as well as reveal their IP addresses, though FBI denies the claims.
